For the first time, the Albertina is staging an exhibition on two levels of the museum: over 2,500 square meters’ floor space host a broad survey of the Albertina’s collecting strategy for contemporary art.
From the over 10,000 works acquired over the past 18 years, around 350 works by 55 artists have been selected for this presentation.

Albertina Museum Wien, Look! New Aquisitions

2017, foto: martin andorfer

One feature of the museum’s collecting strategy is
to acquire groups of works rather than isolated, individual works in
order to afford a more nuanced understanding of the artistic ideas and
creative principles behind a given oeuvre.Purchases
for the Graphic Arts Collection of the Albertina consist exclusively of
drawings and prints. Above and beyond that, however, many
artists—conceiving of their output as an indivisible artistic whole—have
also donated important paintings to the museum, since they regard
drawings, printed graphics, and paintings simply as different forms in
which to express the same artistic concepts and ideas.